For some search problems, the graph is known beforehand and there is time to preprocess the graph to make the search faster. One such example is video games, where one can often preprocess maps before a game is released or while a map is loaded into memory. The data produced by preprocessing should use only a small amount of memory, and, in case they are generated during runtime, preprocessing ...

Despite progress in diabetes care and treatment, pregnancies in women with either type 1 or, type 2 DM are still associated with poorer outcomes with respect to healthy non diabetic women. Pregestational DM complicates 0.2 - 0.6% of pregnancies, 35% had type1 and 66% had type 2 DM. In contrast to GDM, pre GDM is more serious because the potential effects of uncontrolled glycemic levels begins a...

This paper introduces the idea of pre-searching a position—searching it before αβ determines that it needs to be searched. Consider the case where an iteration of αβ search comes across a position p that needs to be searched to depth d1, and the transposition table reveals that p will likely need to be searched later in that iteration to depth d2 greater than d1. Pre-searching involves speculat...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of anemia and predisposing factors contributing to anemia in pregnant women prior to delivery. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective case-control study was conducted on 1221 women who delivered between 37 and 42 weeks of gestation between July 2014 and January 2015. Data on the subjects' socioeconomic and demographic characteristic...

The present study tested the hypothesis that angiotensin II plays a role in the regulation of placental vascular tone, which contributes to hypertension in preeclampsia. Functional and molecular assays were performed in large and micro placental and non-placental vessels from humans and animals. In human placental vessels, angiotensin II induced vasoconstrictions in 78.7% vessels in 155 tests, ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Preeclampsia (PE) is a cause of glomerulopathy worldwide. Urinary retinol-binding protein (RBP) is a marker of proximal tubular dysfunction, albuminuria is an endothelial injury marker, urine protein:creatinine ratio (PCR) may have a predictive value for renal disease later in life, and, recently, podocyturia has been proposed as a sensitive tool in pregnancy, but it needs to be...

| Deterministic 3-D modelling of wave propagation in urban areas has become a widely discussed technique for the planning of microcells. However, the practical use of these deterministic models has been limited due to their high computational demands. This paper presents a new approach with the aim of combining the accuracy of ray optical models with the short computation times of empirical mod...

Hypertension is the most common medical problem encountered in pregnancy and remains an important cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. It complicates up to 15% of pregnancies. The review was intended to assess the prognostic significance of the value of serum LDH and used as a marker of preeclampsia. Higher serum LDH and uric acid level associated with increased incidence of mat...

This study investigated the frequency of apolipoprotein E (apoE) alleles among women with severe pre-eclampsia. The presence of the three most common apoE alleles (epsilon 2, epsilon 3, epsilon 4) was determined by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism in three groups of white women: non-pregnant healthy (n = 101), pregnant healthy (n = 52), and pregnant with a diag...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review the literature on human gene expression data of placental tissue in pre-eclampsia and to characterize a meta-signature of differentially expressed genes in order to identify novel putative diagnostic markers. DATA SOURCES Medline through 11 February 2011 using MeSH terms and keywords related to placenta, gene expression and gene expression arrays; GEO databa...